This Hope

As a Christian in this day and age we often forget that we have hope.

Not just hope but this hope, this promise.

1Th 4:13  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

1Th 4:14  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

1Th 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1Th 4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1Th 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The last verse says to comfort one another with these words. This again is something we use at certain occasions just as Psalm 23 is used only at certain times.

Yet this should be our rallying cry Daily leaning on it, We have hope daily, weekly, yearly, minute by minute, hour by hour. We have this hope when things are good, and when things are bad.

We have this hope, but even hope doesn't quite express it as a full complete thought.

We have this promise.